Improvement in portable heaters for melting sealing-wax



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P tented Sep. 24,1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EDWARD I. HYDE AND FRANCIS HYDE, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN PJORTABLE HEATERS FOR MELTING SEALING-WAX, ac.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,684, dated September 24, 1872.

. companying drawin g and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Our invention relates to a device by means of which sealing-wax or cements may be melted and retained in a state of fusion for the convenience of inspectors or others using offitities.

, In the accompanying drawing forming apart of this specification, Figure lis a vertical section of our invention, showing it in a position ready for use; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same upon the line as y and Fig. 3 is an external view of the same, showing it in the position it occupies when not in use.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts of the invention in all the views.

- A is the melting-chamber and reservoir. B is a stand or box, having two sides and a The reservoir A is of a width sufficient to occupy the space between the two sides of the stand, and is connected therewith by means of a wire, a, fastened to the bottom of the reservoir, ex-

tending across the stand B and through the slots]; in the sides thereof. Doors 0 and O are hinged to. the bottom of the reservoir A and nearly close the openends of the stand B.

A lamp, D, is placed'within the standB. Oth- -er.features of our invention remain to be explained, which may be done as the mode of op-:

eration of the device is described, which is as follows:

Referring to Fig. 1, the lamp is first lighted, the doors 0 and U protecting the flame from the wind. The reservoir becomes heated al= most immediately bythe action of the flame. The stick of sealing-wax is then thrust within the reservoir at the opening a and melts upon touching the heated surfaces of the metal, the

fused wax 'runnin g off through the spout A,

falling upon the spot at which the seal is to be affixed. The operator stamps or seals the wax, and then, unless other seals are to be affixed adj acently, when the device can be moved rapidly to the desired spots, he throws the reservoir over to the position in which it is indicated by Fig. 3, the melted wax seeking the end f of the reservoir. At the same time, and by the same movement, the door 0 is caused to push the lamp forward, the door 0 being lifted so as to allow the egress of the lamp. The lamp is thus pushed into such a position, and the wax so removed from contact with the heat of the flame that the wax is protected from the danger of burning and from waste.

Having thus described our invention, what ..we claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The stand B, having the slots 71 b and lamp D, in combination with the melting-chamber and reservoir A A hinged to the stand within the slots b b, and provided with the swinging pendent doors 0 G, substantially as and for the purposesset forth. g

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names, in the city of Baltimore, this 31st day of July, in the year of our Lord 1872.

EDWARD I. HYDE.

Witnesses: FRANCIS HYDE.

GEO. H. HOWARD, THos. MURDooK. 

